Museums & Galleries
Place every artwork in historical context. Reveal movements, influences, and curatorial themes across your entire collection.
HistropediaJS helps museums, galleries, archives, and libraries reveal connections across time — placing artworks, artefacts, lives, and events on a single interactive timeline your visitors can explore.
Trusted by museums, libraries & cultural organisations worldwide
Whether you curate paintings, preserve manuscripts, or tell biographical stories — timelines make your data explorable.
Place every artwork in historical context. Reveal movements, influences, and curatorial themes across your entire collection.
Surface hidden connections in catalogued records. Let researchers and the public navigate decades of material at a glance.
Visualise biographical dictionaries, special collections, and thematic reading journeys powered by your existing metadata.
Connect buildings, architects, and conservation milestones. Tell the story of place across centuries on one canvas.
Real timelines built with HistropediaJS — from national museums to specialist archives.
A digital exploration of the entire collection, placing every artwork in historical context for the museum's bicentenary.
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Over 4,000 lives from the Dictionary of Welsh Biography, visualised as a living timeline powered by Wikidata.
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Spain's architectural heritage presented in historical context, connecting past and contemporary practice.
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Interactive display for #Vote100, highlighting women's suffrage history on campus and online.
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Render 10,000+ catalogue entries at 60fps — proven with Museo del Prado's full collection online.
Custom styling, branded article cards, and flexible layouts that feel native to your website or kiosk display.
Works with Wikidata, CSV exports, CMS APIs, and custom JSON — no proprietary lock-in.
Touch-friendly zoom, pan, and scroll built in — ideal for gallery kiosks, mobile visitors, and classroom use.
Start building today — free for personal and educational use. Commercial licences available for institution-wide deployments.
No dependencies · Works via script tag or npm · Full documentation included